APPENDIX. SINCE the GIPSIES' ADVOCATE was put to press, the author, as might naturally be expected on a subject so interesting as the conversion of the Gipsies, has had many other pleasing communications. From his Bristol correspondents he has been favoured with several of delightful interest, in reference to a small colony in that neighbourhood; and these state, that several of the Gipsies not only begin to evidence an aversion to their former life, but increase in seriousness, and in habits of industry. And happy is he to say, that several influential Christians of that city are growing in the interest they manifest to these outcasts of society; for they are endeavouring to improve every opportunity of affording them instruction. It is with peculiar pleasure too, the author learns, that the students of the Baptist Academy of the above-named city, are not dead to the affecting necessities of this poor people. Some of the students of that academy spent the whole of one day in endeavouring to find one of their large encampments, of which they had had some previous information, and spent the evening in giving such instruction as appeared to them to be the best calculated to enlighten and reform the people to whom they were so anxious to do good; some of them occu pying themselves with the children, and others with May their example have its due influence the adults. on surrounding Christians! The author must not forget to mention here, that he has been apprised by the Clergyman in Scotland, whose letter forms so interesting a part of the ninth chapter, that the account he mentioned to him, as gaining insertion in a statistical publication, has not been published, he believes, in consequence of the death of the gentleman who had interested himself for its insertion in the work referred to; but that he hopes it may meet the public eye in a short time. And now, having redeemed the pledge which he gave his friends about twelve months since, by furnishing them with a history of the Gipsies, such a one as he hopes will be beneficial to the race, whose conduct, condition, and necessities it narrates; he offers his thanks to those kind friends who have unintentionally contributed to the interest of these pages, and requests the continuation of their favours, with a view to give increasing interest to an intended third edition. He would not forget publicly to solicit, likewise, the correspondence of ladies and gentlemen who may be in possession of facts or plans likely to interest the public towards the Gipsies. The author commits these pages to the all-influential blessing of God, earnestly praying that these poor, hard-faring wanderers, whose character he has endeavoured to delineate, may be speedily rescued from their present forlorn condition, and, that they may even tually be conducted to the mansions of eternal bliss, where neither storm nor tempest shall any longer afflict them, but where they shall join with the ransomed of the Lord, in ascribing blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. THE END. LIST OF AUTHORS WHO HAVE WRITTEN ON THE GIPSIES. H. M. G. GRELLMAN'S DISSERTATION ON THE GIPSIES." Translated by M. Rapier. HOYLAND'S SURVEY OF THE GIPSIES. TWISS'S TRAVELS IN SPAIN. SWINBURNE'S TRAVELS IN ITALY mae DR C. D. CLARK'S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA. gCAPT. DAVID RICHARDSON. Referred to in the seventh nisholume of Asiatic Researches. THOMAS BROWN'S VULGAR ERRORS. one as condi While these are the leading authors, whose works are either his posed in, or translated into English, it may impress us with alie importance by which the Gipsies have been viewed, to know, that nearly 200 have written about them in other languages. BAKER AND SON, PRINTERS, SOUTHAMPTON. |